Re: Slackware 8.0, 7.1 Vulnerability: /usr/bin/locate

[Brian Smith <avalon73 () arthurian nu>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> This Slackware locatedb vulnerability is a perfect example to counter
> your reasoning. 

It's apparently something that's changed in later versions of Slackware.
Here's one from my machine, which was originally Slack3.5 (before going
through several upgrades, of course):

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       740500 Aug  1 04:03 locatedb

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